Fan retains her 500m world title
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March 11, 2012, Sunday
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CHINESE teenage skater Fan Kexin retained her title in the women's 500 meters at the ISU world short-track speedskating championships in Shanghai yesterday, while the men's 500 gold was won by Olivier Jean of Canada.
Fan, 18, winner of the event at the 2011 Sheffield worlds in England, clocked the fastest time of 44.438 seconds in the final at the Oriental Sports Center, edging Italian Arianna Fontana, bronze medalist at the 2010 Vancouver Olympics, by 0.029 seconds. Lana Gehring of the United States finished third in 44.815.
"It's my second World Championships and I am happy with my performance today," said Fan. "But I felt sorry for my teammate Liu Qiuhong, as she fell in the heats."
Veteran Liu, runner-up in the women's 1,500 on Friday, slipped and fell in the 500 heats and failed to make the quarterfinals.
Fontana, world No. 1 in the event, said she was satisfied with the silver. "Of course I wanted to win. Who doesn't want to win. But I'm still happy and tomorrow will be another day, I will try to do better."
Fan said she still needs to make improvement in her skills and strength.
"I will keep training hard and I hope I can achieve some good results at the 2014 Sochi (Olympic) Games (in Russia)," she said.
In the men's 500 final, Jean led the race to finish in 41.077 seconds, while his teammate Charles Hamelin took the silver in 41.035. The bronze went to Kwak Yoon-gy of South Korea in 41.479.
Chinese favorite Liang Wenhao, winner of the event at 2010 world championships, fell in the semifinals and failed to advance.
China's four-time Winter Olympic champion Wang Meng was disqualified for the worlds as she had been expelled from the national team and banned from domestic and international competitions since last August.
Six championship races will be held today when the 1,000- and 3,000-meter men's and women's races and relays over 3,000 for women and 5,000 for men take place.
In Berlin, Yu Jing of China won her second 500-meter race in two days at the speedskating finals yesterday to claim the overall World Cup title.
Yu followed up Friday's success by winning the last race of the season in 37.63 seconds, with Olympic champion Lee Sang-hwa of South Korea second, 0.03 seconds behind.
Lee also finished second overall, 70 points behind Yu who tops the overall World Cup standings with 960 points.
Christine Nesbitt of Canada was third, 0.54 seconds behind, and finished 10th overall.
World champion Jenny Wolf of Germany finished fourth, ending the season in third.
Fan, 18, winner of the event at the 2011 Sheffield worlds in England, clocked the fastest time of 44.438 seconds in the final at the Oriental Sports Center, edging Italian Arianna Fontana, bronze medalist at the 2010 Vancouver Olympics, by 0.029 seconds. Lana Gehring of the United States finished third in 44.815.
"It's my second World Championships and I am happy with my performance today," said Fan. "But I felt sorry for my teammate Liu Qiuhong, as she fell in the heats."
Veteran Liu, runner-up in the women's 1,500 on Friday, slipped and fell in the 500 heats and failed to make the quarterfinals.
Fontana, world No. 1 in the event, said she was satisfied with the silver. "Of course I wanted to win. Who doesn't want to win. But I'm still happy and tomorrow will be another day, I will try to do better."
Fan said she still needs to make improvement in her skills and strength.
"I will keep training hard and I hope I can achieve some good results at the 2014 Sochi (Olympic) Games (in Russia)," she said.
In the men's 500 final, Jean led the race to finish in 41.077 seconds, while his teammate Charles Hamelin took the silver in 41.035. The bronze went to Kwak Yoon-gy of South Korea in 41.479.
Chinese favorite Liang Wenhao, winner of the event at 2010 world championships, fell in the semifinals and failed to advance.
China's four-time Winter Olympic champion Wang Meng was disqualified for the worlds as she had been expelled from the national team and banned from domestic and international competitions since last August.
Six championship races will be held today when the 1,000- and 3,000-meter men's and women's races and relays over 3,000 for women and 5,000 for men take place.
In Berlin, Yu Jing of China won her second 500-meter race in two days at the speedskating finals yesterday to claim the overall World Cup title.
Yu followed up Friday's success by winning the last race of the season in 37.63 seconds, with Olympic champion Lee Sang-hwa of South Korea second, 0.03 seconds behind.
Lee also finished second overall, 70 points behind Yu who tops the overall World Cup standings with 960 points.
Christine Nesbitt of Canada was third, 0.54 seconds behind, and finished 10th overall.
World champion Jenny Wolf of Germany finished fourth, ending the season in third.
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